A South Carolina beach town once nicknamed “Dirty Myrtle” because of its rowdy nightclubs and strip joints has become a ...

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly ...

China's energy profile is a paradox. The country accounts for more than half of global coal use even as it builds the world's ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water and hot spots, protests and measures to lessen the effects of ...

From the soft and sandy to the wild and windswept, here’s where to find the best beaches in England’s blissfully quiet ...

Oooh and ahh as America caps its 249th birthday with dazzling fireworks on the National Mall in D.C. See patriotic ...